Need Advice for Managing Memberships

I am working on a WordPress site for a tennis organization. They have several tournaments every year. I want players to be able to “register” for a user account on the web site and their information be stored. So if they return to the site to sign-up for another tournament, they can log-in and their information will be populated into the event registration form. I want users to be able to log-in to their user account and change their address, phone, etc. whenever they need to. It would also be useful if a site admin was able to lookup player data if they need to be contacted about a tournament. I’m assuming that I could use just about any WordPress theme, but would need to get a special plug-in or service to make this work. I really don’t know where to start except a forum like this. I would appreciate alot of advice please! Thanks

One plugin to start with is Easy User Fields (it’s sold here on Code Canyon). It will give you a really easy way to allow users to update their profile info, and also gives you the ability to create custom profile fields.

To archive this you would need to store the account, settings and tournament data of every user in a mySQL database. To do this you would first need to connect with the database by using the database connect function and then insert the information into the database using the insert function. After this you can echo the data from the database by connecting to it and recieving data using the recieve function. I hope you’ll figer it out by yourself but if you need help with any of this, you can always contact me trough my Envato user page or my website.

kvendrik said
To archive this you would need to store the account, settings and tournament data of every user in a mySQL database. To do this you would first need to connect with the database by using the database connect function and then insert the information into the database using the insert function. After this you can echo the data from the database by connecting to it and recieving data using the recieve function. I hope you’ll figer it out by yourself but if you need help with any of this, you can always contact me trough my Envato user page or my website.

Because he was referring to doing this within WP, you should not use these functions, but rather the functions provided by the $wpdb class.

mordauk said

kvendrik said
To archive this you would need to store the account, settings and tournament data of every user in a mySQL database. To do this you would first need to connect with the database by using the database connect function and then insert the information into the database using the insert function. After this you can echo the data from the database by connecting to it and recieving data using the recieve function. I hope you’ll figer it out by yourself but if you need help with any of this, you can always contact me trough my Envato user page or my website.

Because he was referring to doing this within WP, you should not use these functions, but rather the functions provided by the $wpdb class.

Oh sorry, I didn’t realize he wanted to do this within WP. My apologies.